GNU Core Utilities - Patches: patch #6532, tail -u -- unbuffered output

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patch #6532: tail -u -- unbuffered output

Submitter:	Juergen Weigert <jnweiger>
Submitted:	Tue 03 Jun 2008 03:14:33 PM UTC
Category:	None	Priority:	5 - Normal
Status:	None	Privacy:	Public
Assigned to:	None	Open/Closed:	Open

Mon 02 Feb 2009 09:50:26 AM UTC, comment #1:  tail -f already does a fflush(). Also we're about to add a `stdbuf` util to control buffering of utilities, so I'm not sure that this should be applied.	Pádraig Brady <pixelbeat>
Tue 03 Jun 2008 03:14:33 PM UTC, original submission:   when tail's stdout is not a terminal, stdio library fools us by buffering large chunks of data. This patch adds an option to run in unbuffered mode, Implemented as straightforward use of fflush().	Juergen Weigert <jnweiger>

 

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Attached Files

file #15788:  tail-unbuffered.diff added by jnweiger (3KiB - text/x-diff - patch against coreutils-6.11 as found in SUSE Linux 11.0)

 

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Date	Changed by	Updated Field	Previous Value	=>	Replaced by
2008-06-03	jnweiger	Attached File	-		Added tail-unbuffered.diff, #15788

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